On 8/7/2012 1:55 PM, Sean Daley wrote:
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:08 AM, AngusC <> wrote:
If I use the command:
grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.*
I get results back as expected
But if the file pattern is like this:
grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log
I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this pattern
with .log file extension).
Am I doing something wrong?
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The first one works because *.* will match everything your current directory,
including sub-directories and it will recurse through each of them. The
second example will first match anything in your current directory with a .log
extension and try to grep it (if it's a file) or recurse through it if
it's a directory.
What I believe you want to do (at least works on Linux) is
grep -nH -r "my pattern" --include "*.log" .
Sean
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I think this is the best answer ever so far.
also it looks for me:
grep -nHr "pattern" *.*
equals:
grep -nHr "pattern" .
I use the latter alot to quickly locate a file per content.
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